13 feb. 2015

Google Scholar Citations in figures

In a post published by José Luis Ortega in his new blog The
Scientific Web Observer, he presents some updated figures on Google
Scholar Citations. We extend our warmest regards and wish the best of luck to
him in this new and interesing endeavor.

Enabling scientific authors to create a bibliographic profile containing
all their publications, and making it available to search engines.

Allowing researchers to follow and be followed by other researchers, receiving
automatic alerts when those researchers add new publications as well as when
your research is cited.

Automatically generating some basic bibliometric indicators.

Google Scholar Citations, which received a face-lift
during the last summer (introducing
some new features), contained a total of 596,105 profiles as of January
2015, twice the number of profiles it contained in 2014 (296,205). The United
States is the country with a higher number of researcher profiles (112,899),
followed by the United Kingdom. The case of Brazil should also be highlighted,
since the position it ocupies in the ranking according to the number of profiles
is much higher than its global scientific weight. As a matter of fact, the
institution with the highest number of profiles is the Universidade de Sao
Paulo (6155).